It is a black and white photo portrait of the elderly Franz Krüger. He has white, short-cropped hair with a half bald head and a high forehead. He wears a greying moustache and his face is plump, his chin tends towards a double chin. He wears a buttoned-up white shirt with a dark tie and jacket. He wears metal nickel glasses.

Franz Krüger, 1930.

Private ownership H. H. Sellen.

FRANZ KRÜGER
(1873 – 1936)

Franz Krüger was an architect, architectural historian and monument conservationist. After studying architecture in Halle and Hanover, he worked as an architect and architectural historian in Lüneburg from 1899. Many of his buildings still characterise the cityscape today. He built the Wandelhalle in the Kurpark, the water tower in the city centre, the station building on the »Wittenberg railway«, the »Lodge house« and numerous other residential buildings, factory buildings and public facilities, such as the local Hermann Löns School. From 1913 to 1936, he was the honorary head of the Department of Prehistory and Early History at the Museum für das Fürstentum Lüneburg (now Museum Lüneburg). He was also a founding member of the Lüneburg Society for the Preservation of Monuments, which was established in 1904. He remained unmarried throughout his life.

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